Tag Archives: context clues

It’s a word that I didn’t learn until a professor of mine at Hampshire College wrote it in an evaluation of my Division II work (which was very gratifying), so maybe high schoolers need not learn it. If you think they should, though, then here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective perspicacious. It means “of acute mental vision or discernment.”

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OK! It’s Friday again, and a in-service half-day in this district to boot. Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun patriarch. I can’t remember why I wrote this in the first place (there is, elsewhere on Mark’s Text Terminal, a worksheet on the Latin roots pat and patri, which probably ought to have sufficed for this), but I do think it’s a word high schoolers ought to know.

All of these words mean something related to father, incidentally.

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OK, moving right along, here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective outlandish.  This word is in common enough use in the vernacular that students should probably know it.

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It’s probably not an essential word for high school students, but here, nonetheless, is a context clues worksheet on the noun orthography if you can use it.

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It turned up in a discursive lesson I taught in a personal development class yesterday (on, of all things, what’s “wrong” with Eric Cartman of “South Park”), so here is a context clues worksheet on the verb assert. It is used only transitively, apparently, which makes sense if one thinks about where and how to use it in speech and prose.

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OK, after a long weekend, here is a context clues worksheet on aggregate used as a noun. It seems to me that somewhere along the way I wanted to write one of these for aggregate as a verb as well. So be on the lookout for that, I suppose.

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Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun acrimony. I suspect that its adjectival form, acrimonious, is probably in more common usage in the English language. In any case, acrimony and the concept it represents probably ought to be a part of a high school student’s linguistic toolkit.

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